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Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins

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Description for Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins Hardback. Edgar G Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of his fellow Austrian and German emigre directors - Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Robert Siodmak. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 32 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 664.
Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of his fellow Austrian and German emigre directors--Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Robert Siodmak. Despite early work with Max Reinhardt and F. W. Murnau, his auspicious debut with Siodmak on their celebrated Weimar classic People on Sunday, and the success of films like Detour and Ruthless, Ulmer spent most of his career as an itinerant filmmaker earning modest paychecks for films that ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Series
Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520235779
SKU
V9780520235779
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About Noah Isenberg
Noah Isenberg is Director of Screen Studies and Professor of Culture and Media at the New School, author of Detour, and editor of Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era.

Reviews for Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins
"A page turner of a biography."
Andrew O'Hehir New York Times "The story of his [Edgar G. Ulmer's] life is told with remarkable research and insight."
Richard Brody New Yorker "The season's must read [for film buffs] ... Noah Isenberg's long-awaited biography 'Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins.' Ulmer-whose CV includes "People on Sunday," "The Black ... Read more

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